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ON FORECASTS GERMAN BACK DOWNLONDHARDING AT CAPITAL; MAY VISIT WILTonight's Weather FAIR COLDER.To. Morrow's Weather FAIR, COLDER.mmFmuwmra m m im.ni m awimMidi ;sjiEDITIONVOL. LXI. NO. 21,678ISBYPresident-'Elect's Train ReachesWashington Half an HourAhead of Time.READY FOR INAUGURAL.Final Arrangements Made for aModest Ceremony at NoonTo-Morrow. .WASHINGTON, March S. -President-ElectHarding reached Washington at 1 o'clock this afternoon andwentJtokc$nierence -wlth Inauguralofficials' on' details of to-morrow'sceremonies.Although the Presidential (specialreached the capitals half hour aheadot schedule, a large crowd greetedthe (Prestdent-E2ect as he walked outthrough the President's entrance ofthe station. Smiling and bowing hocUmbed into an automobile and wasdriven to a downtown hotel "where heand 'Mrs. Harding will remain overnightIn hla conferences with inauguration officials it la understood thequestion of a call of courtesy onPresident 'Wilson 'was dlsoussed. Before 2ie conference began Sir. Harding indicated that he -would be guidodin this and other details by suggestions from the committee.Vice-President-elect and Mrs. Calvin CooUdge as well as the Commissi oners of the District of ColumbiaGovernment "were at the station towelcome the President-elect and Mrs.Harding la the President's room. Sir.scad lira. Coolidge accompanied Mr.ad Mrs, Harding to the new WillardHotel. 'Immediately after the arrival of theparty there. Mr. Harding began aaeries of conferences with his advises!. His first visitor was James J.Davis of Pittsburgh, -whose appointment as Secretary of Labor, was announced by Mr. Harding while enroot to Washington. The RepublicanNational Committee had been in session at tha hotel and the meeting adjourned n lime for the members towelcome Mr. Harding. Three of thenewly appointed Cabinet officers,Harry M. Daugherty, John W. WeeksTxia Will H. Hays, were at the noteLMr. Harding arranged to confer at'the hotel with Senator Lodge ofMassachusetts and other RepublicanSenators. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the CongressionalInaugural Committee, and other mom-(Continued on Second Page.)Classified AdvertisersImportant!Classified advertising copy forThe Sunday World should be InTe World officeOn or Before FridayPreceding PublicationOVftifUd. Advertisement for WeekDope ReceivedDAILY AFTER 8 A.M.Ttxr publication the followinc day.EARLY COPYHit t Bt 0aftU42'UE. WORLD.'i n--ni t r"-itiI rZLrmv t MRS. HARDING'S INAUGURATION GOWNSfHARDINGGREETEDCONFERS WITH PARTY CHIEFSDAILY.CepirUht. 1021, br The rrrvg PublishingCo. (The New Xork World),REACHES CAPITAL;BIG CROWDS:STILL HOPEFULBelieves Harding Will Be Confronted With Necessity ofPromoting One.By David Lawrence.(Special Correspondent of The.Evening World.)WASHINGTON, March 3 (Copyright, 121). AVlth flags and buntinghanging limp in the drtsrle of adreary day. -tho Administration ofWoodrow Wilson comes to a sombreend. Death crts Its melancholyshadow over the Capitol whero ChampClark, who might have been Dc-mocracya leader In tho trying yearssince 1313, lies in state, mourned byan who know him. Irrespective ofparty. The tragedy of n broken tie.ure at the Whito House is In thominds of pasacrsby as they look curiously at the Executive Mansion where,by the mandate of the (people, ayounger and more vigorous man tnJtMup within a lew hours the awful responsibilities of Government at a critical moment In American history.Jealousy and bitterness over thedefeat last autumn have mellowedand the atmosphere of the closinghours of tho Wilson Administrationis one of depression not unmingledwith the sincere hope that the greatdesire of Woodrow Wilson for apartnership of nations to preservepeace will be achieved and vindication, much more satisfying than electoral votes or political offices, willcome witb the passing of time.BELIEVE HARDING WILL HAVETO TURN TO LEAGUE.Perhaps more significant than anyother thing about the ending of thisAdministration is the absolute confidence of the outgoing officials thatwhen President Harding and Secretary of Stale Hughes begin to examine first- hand the facts of ourInternational relationship they will(Continued on Eighth Page.)DAVIS COMPLETESHARDING CABINETPresidentelect Formally AnnouncesChoice of Secretaryof 'Labor.WASHINGTON, March 8 President-electHarding to-day completedhis Cabinet by naming James J.IavlB of Pitti&urgh as Secretary ofLabor.At the samo time ho namedGeorge 11. Christian Ills private Secrctary. Couoj- (a Trr Cronn-Conntr j- FllltlitMurcli H.JACKfSONVILLK. Ida., March 3.Lieut. William Devoe Coney. 91st AeroSquadron, United States Army, who recently established a new iilrplnn- flightttcord of 32 houri and 27 minutes fromthe I'arltlr lo the Atlantic, will hop .ifffrom Pablo Heic-li here at 12.01 A M.March S In ai alttmpt lo lower hl.i ownrecord In a M.slii to tun Diego, Calif.,making only oat stop, at Dallas. Tax.ihsriitiiry',ist hn faniitrtmWILSON GOING OUTLEAGUE WILL WIN" Circulation Books Open to AIL"HUSBAND KILLEDBY WIAN WITH WHOWlHIS WIFEELOPEDFatally Shot on Jamaica Trolley While on Way toArrange Divorce.CAME FROM BUFFALO.Rudolph Benzler Dies at Sideof Woman Who Fled WithIhwood, L I., Man.Rudolph Benzler of No. 93 PurdyStreet, Buffalo', was mortally shotIn a Jamaica trolley car thinmorning by Wilfred Resting of Inwood, L. L, following a quarrel and afist fight between the two men, in theoourso of which Benzler had flungBossing, from the car. The shot wasfired by Resslng after he feltImmediately after the shootingBensler staggered into tho car fromthe bock platform and eat down beside his wife. Within a mlnuto hewas dead. Resslng, too, climbedaboard tho car and took a seat on theother side of Mrs. Benxler and thetwo sat thero with tho body until apoliceman arrived and placed Resslngunder arrest.In tho Jamaica Polios Station later.Magistrate Kochcndorfcr hold (bothResslng and dire. Ben tier until Monday for examination, the former without ball, and the woman as a material witness.Tho shooting occurred at Jamaicajunction and New York Avenue. Thothree wore, on their way first tobreakfast and thence to a lawyer's office to arrange for a divorce of the,Benzlcra. This divorce had beenu greed upon at an interview thismorning after Benzler had traced hiswlfo to the houao sho was occupyingwitlh Resslng, at No. 711 BurnsldeAvenue, In wood.When Benzler found his wife andResslng at the Inwood House be askedher if sho wanted to continue to livewith Resslng. She replied she did,that she, loved him.To you wont to marry JrtmT" heasked further.Upon receiving an afarmattve reply he added: - Then we'd better gosee a lawyer and have the thing Axedup." A short time later the threeleft the house for Jamaica.Before leaving, ihowever, accordingto the story told to the police by (Mrs.Benzler, Resslng went to the livingroom of their home and there got arevolver, whl'h he loaded, and placeda number of other cartridges In hispodket. At that time Benzler was In(Continued on Fifteenth Page.'NO IMPEACHMENTOF LANDIS, BELIEFNo Violation of tawOUed to Committee's Attention, SaysVolstead.WASHINGTON. March 3. Dlsentinsfrom tho action of the Hmiae JudiciaryCommittee In recommending Investigation by the next Congress of Impeachment charges asnlnst Federal JudseLandl, Chalrma Volstead express dthe In Uaf that not one mr-mbo." of iliecomm'tteo would vote for tmpeachm. ntbpftiiiyo of the Judge' acceptance ofliie oriioe or nosooall arbiter while servInc on the 'bench, nor would any considerable number of House membeievolf to auctalii the chargds."No violation of law on tho pnrt ofJudge I,andl.i wn called to the attention of tho committee," the Chalrmmdeclared, "nor la it believed that theJndtse 1 guilty of any act that wouldestablish moral turpitude. Ono o.- bothmounds would have, to he establishedbefoni Impenohmtnt proctedlncs couldt mslntslnsd."NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1921.WILSON AND COLBY,Counsellors at LawPresident Surprises All His Friends With theAnnouncement of Partnership With Outgoing Secretary of State.WASHINGTON, March 3.PRESIDENT WILSON formally announced to-day Uiat lie would"resume tho practice of law" in partnership with UalnbrldgeColby, the retiring Secrotary of State.The firm win maintain offices In New York and Washington.Tho President's announcement, wholly unexpected, will recall tothe public mind one of his least known of attainments thatof being a flawy er. He was graduated in law from the University ofVirginia In 1881, and practiced In Atlanta In 1882 and 1883. In the latter year he went to Baltimore to take up post graduate work at JohnHopkins University and practiced some In the local courts la that city.In 1886 be began his career as a college professor, taking up thechair of history and political economy at Hryn M&wr. From thattime onward Mf.. Wilson did not figure in the practice of law.The presumption is that the new firm will engage principally inInternational law and collateral work with Mr, Colby in charge of theNew York office.Whether Mr. Wilson Intended to appear 'in court was not madeclear.althoushlt-i.waa, sUtcdaL.lh.co6UA8 that he would applyfor admission to practice before the Supreme Court of tho UnitedSates.'Probably no- announcement of any nature has surprised Washington more during the recent months. Mr. Wilson kept his owncounsel concerning his plans up to the last moment, and the men whohave ibeen most dpsely associated with him personally and privatelyduring the last eight years said they knew nothing of tho President'splan until this morning.TO CLOSE BROOKLYNRESTAURANTS AS AEProceedings Begun AgainstOwners and Manager of Ritzby Federal Authorities.Injunction) prooeedlngfl were broughtagainst tha Ritz Restaurant Company and the Livingston Realty Company, which owns the building INos.S, 10 and 13 Nevina 6 tree t. to-day byFederal authorities.The (purpose of the proceedings is torestrain the manager, Henry Fink,and the owners, from continuing analleged nuisance.The relief asked for through UnitedStates District Attorney Laroy W.Roes is that the place be closed fora year, in accordance with a provision of the Volstead Act On April 16,1920, Fink was convicted of sellingllcruor, and two other cases are pending against him at present.According to the procedure oftxrulty, tho restaurant and realtycompanies have twenty days toanswer.SALOONKEEPER KILLS SELF.CrUuc CrMrlina Commits Suicide anSpcedvmy (Dench,Max Ooerllng. flfty of No. 7N West180th Street, who formerly conducted alarge cafo at i77th Street and St.Nicholas Avenue, committed suicidethis afternoon by shooting himselfthrough the temple while sitting on abench at lftSth Street and thi) Speedway.The shot wia heard by TofllcemnnWJwlen of the West 177th Street statlon, who summoned an ambulance, butOoerllng a dead before it arrived. Anote found in his pocKet contained livptructlons lo an undertaker lesardinghis burial. Tho reason (or the sulclda1 snot known.Army Appropriation nlll Sent torrmlilrnt.WASHINGTON. March 3. The ArmyAppropriation PHI was completed today and sent to the President. ThaHouse accented the compromise, acreedto by Uii. Senate, (or an army of 158. CMmen during Ut dox; fiscal varDRY LAW NUISANCLANDIS HINTS HESTANDS PAT ONIn Bar Association Speech HeSaid He Would Resign ifCongress WaslHostiie.CHICAGO, March 3. Judge Landlsto-day said be would have nothing tosay concerning impeachment proceedings threatened against htm Inthe National House of Representatives until he had received officialword of what the House committeehad Ibeen told."I have asked the committee tosend me a copy of the charges, evidence, arguments and report If theirrules permit me to have this Information," he said. "Until I know whatthe committee was told, I shall havenothing whatever to say."The jurist Indicated that his attitude on tha ultimate outcome of thecontroversy over his acceptance ofthe post of National (Baseball Commissioner had not changed since hisdeclaration on the subject at St.Louis before tho (Missouri Bar Association last December. In that address he said:"I realizo that men may disagreerespecting a Federal Judgo being alsoa Baseball Commissioner. The Constitution provides a way to got rid ofa Judftal officer, that to, by Impeachment. But this Is a very cumbemomoprocess, and it docs not accord withmy Idea at all for a (Federal Judge toavail himself of this shield."For my own part, and speaking toyou gentlemen with all deliberation.I say that If cither House of Congrwtsshould pas a iresolutinn hOHtile to mypresent situation my rcalgnatlan Immediately would go to Washington."Sketches and full descriptionsof Mrs. Harding's inaugurationgowns made In New York will beprinted exclusively In The Evening World to-morrow. Insure afirst view of Mrs. Harding's WhiteHouse wardrobe by ordering today from your newsdealer a copytf Friday Evening Wetld.1PLAN TO RESIGNl'Crcnatfon Boots OpenKntrrrit n geenml-CU MutterI'o.t Office, New. Yotk, N. V.i .SSiNOW SERVED ON GERMANSp f ,S S MY MUST YIELD BY MONDAYui himm u.u.r.Governor and Party BossesMaking Desperate .Effort toRally Shaken Forces.FACE AN OPEN REVOLT."Stand by Party" Cry DoesNot Appeal to Legislators 'Who Fear Defeat.By Joseph S. Jordan.(Staff Correspondent of Tha KvenlngWorld.)ALBANY, March S.lt Is apparentto-day that advocates of Gov. Miller's traction bills havo lost groundand are making doaperato efforts tosteady and strengthen their weakened lines. ,Heretofore those opposing the Miller programrno have pinned theirhopes of defeating the measure solelyupon tho , Bcnute. The Assembly,with Its overwhelming up-tate Republican majority, was regarded as"safe," leader.i claiming no Icsa thanninety voted sure for anything advocated by tho Governor. To-duy theAssembly linos are shaken nnd theQ. O. P. leaders claim only noventyslx voles for the traction bill. Just thenumber required to puna It.This claim la ,in Itself regarded uksure evidence of weaknens, for Ifthere tvero soventy-Hix "suru votch"it would be against all legislativeprecedents for tho bosses to claimloss than eighty-six.Tho action of ofllclal spokesmen oftho up-State cities was a severe Joltto the Republican leaders, who haddeclared a wcok ago that the trackshad boen greased for tho measure togo through both Houses. Also It isresponsible In large part for the Impending break In Assembly lines.TREMENDOUS PRESSURE USEDFOR BILL,Gov. Miller is more determined thanever his bill shall become law, andalthough he .talks to the correspondents as to what the Legislature"might do or might not" do, he isusing every Influence and politicaldevice to whip the lawmakers intoline for his measure.Gov. Miller may not care for theposition taken by the New YorkState Mayors Conference on themeasure, but their determined opposition has mode the legislators sit upand take notloe. This Is true. Inparticular, of the Assemblymen whohave political hopes for the future.They have to make their fightfor a return to the Legislaturewithin a year and the people upState, who object to a Public ServiceCommission taking over their utilities and smashing their traction contracts, will not forget between nowand November.Pressure Is being brought to bearupon ine memmers ot tne lowerHouse from every point of political(Continued on Fifteenth Page.)MILLIONAIRE KILLSHIMSELF WITH GASHeavy Losses in VVirkct Given asReason for l:ikiing I lis Life byEniil Rothschild.OMAHA. March 3. F.mll Kothsclllld,mllllonalie grain operator and Presidentof tho Itolhchlid Grain Company, committed suicide In his home here earlyto-day. lie was (o md dc.id In lln.-kitchen with the Gas turned onHeavy losses In cush grain and In for-el;n murkst specuUtlon were responsible according to notes he Uft. 'illEDITIONto ill."R CITIES WILL BE SEIZEDHead of Berlin Delegation Says ReplyWillBeMade on Time AnnouncesThere May Be No Need for Carrying Out Allied Threats to TakeCoal Regiqn.LONDON, March 3 (Associated Press), Germany was to-daygiven until Monday noon to accept the fupdaifiental conditions laid downby the Supreme Allied Council at Paris. The German delegates wereinformed by the Allied representatives that If Germany does not acceptJhose ferms thu Allies will take Immediate coercive steps;First Occupation bj Allied troops of tho ClUes of Dulaburjr, Das.neldorf and Iluhrort, at the mouth of tho Bhine, tirelre nrllcs nest ofEsscu, In tho Ruhr region of Oennanv, which contain Important minesand Iron plants.Secondly KmJi Allied country nlll place surJi a tat on Germanmrrchnitdlsu ns It maj deem proper.Thirdly A customs bonndnry ttliinp (be Rhine, iiikIit Allied control, nlll bo established.The German delegation was informed that the only modification ofthe Pins reparation decisions permitted to Germany would be as regardedconciiiior.s of payment, such as a reduction of the period of annuities fromforty-two years lo thirty years."VDAYLIGHT SAVINGREPEAL IS PASSEDBill Sent to Governar-7-vctiou DoesNot Affect This CityThis Year.ALUAlNY, March 3. The Senate to-day passed tho Daylight Waving Repeal Bill, by a vote of 37 to 22. . Itnow goes to Gov. Miller for his ay-pro vol.The Senate guve the bin one votemoro than the Constitutional majority. Democrats voted solidly ogalnntthe measure which contains a provision giving to cities and Incorporated villages the right to adoptvday.Ught sayingordinances If tbey sodesire.Under an ordinance adopted lastyear by tho New York Board of Aldermen, Now York City will conttnuothis year under daylight saving fromthe lost Sunday in March unUl tholast Sunday in October, despite repealof the State Daylight BUI. The StockExchange banks, and other Institutions hero are expected to (follow localtime as before.An amendment to the local daylight ordinance is now ponding beforetho Board of Aldermen, which wouldrcduoe the period of daylight timefrom seven to five months. Action onthe amendment Is expected next week.HOPE FOR NAVY BILLNOW IS ABANDONEDSenator Poindexter, in Charge of It,.Sees No Chance for ItThis Session.WAMIIINOTO.V. March 3 Hope ofpassing ths Naval Appropriation Oil) atthis scsilon was abandoned to-day byManator I'olndoxter, Itepubllcan, WainInston. who has been In charge of it.and the Senate proceeded to other busl-tvs.The Washington Senator attacked theuieasurr as passed by tno House, declaring that hud It been enacted Itwould huw led to the "demoralizationand paralysis ot the American Navy."PRICE THREE CENTSExclusive Sketches inEvening World To-Morrow' After Mr. Llnvif rionma h.rlfinished Dr. Walter Simons forthe Germans, said the intentionsof tha German Government hadbeen quits misunderstood. TheQsrman delegation, ha said,, wouldreply at noon on Monday.t "In our oplnlor," added theGerman Foreign rninlater, n6 ecMelon wtll arlss for the sanelions set forth by tha AlliedPowers."Dr. 8lmons said the Germanswould examine the British PrimeMinister's speech and the Allieddocuments moat carefully.It was noticed during the BritishPrime Minister's presentation ot theAllied decisions that he hod left anopening for tho Germans to mainnew proposals, and Dr. Simons, Inmaklmr tho reply ho did, was promptto take advantage of -this.Mr, Lloyd George, In the course ofhis long speech, suld that if tha Germans hud come with a sincere deslrodroA.to discharge Germany's obllgatlo.tho Alllce would havo given the1proposals fair and patient conslderatlon. Germany's counter-proposals, whichwere submitted on Tuosday, were notsusceptible of examination. PremierLloyd Georgo told Dr. Simons whentho session opened.IA despatch from Paris saysGermany's deliveries appllcablo tathe reparations account, Includingwar material are estimated at8,000,000,000 gold marks. Thiswould leave 12,000,000,000 marksdue on the first 20,000,000,000marks Germany would pay underthe Versailles Treaty,Tho Germans claimed in theirstatement to the Allied Couneltthat the full 20,000,000,000 marks(about $5,000,000,000) had beenpaid.Mr. Lloyd George sold the attitudetaken by the aertnan Umpire regarding reparations was n gravo violationof the obligations of Germany towardthe Allies. He reminded the Germanrepresentatives that their Governmenthad not fulfilled the Treaty of Versailles rclatlvo to coal deliveries, disarmament, the payment ot 10,000,009.000 mark In cold and the punishmentv.i'"1m-AHihila VHDS